John R. Lewis 2022 Case Competition winner Vivian Chong joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss her team's proposal of investing in a tech hub based in Atlanta, identifying racial tech gaps across ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Maya Wiley, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, join civil ...

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — A DeKalb elementary school is honoring the late Congressman John Lewis for a second time. John R. Lewis Elementary, the first public school to be named after the civil rights ...

WASHINGTON — One week before the 60 th anniversary of the landmark Voting Rights Act that prohibited racial discrimination in voting, a group of Democratic senators reintroduced the John R. Lewis ...

SPRINGFIELD, Va. — Fairfax County Public Schools is rededicating the name of one of their high schools to honor civil rights icon Rep. John R. Lewis after removing the name of confederate general ...

John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940–July 17, 2020) was a giant in the civil rights movement whose wisdom, courage, and moral clarity earned him the nickname “the conscience of the Congress” during ...

DeKalb County Schools, along with the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation, unveiled a new mural on Monday honoring late Georgia congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis. The artwork will be ...

WASHINGTON — The Congressional Black Caucus took to the House floor on Monday night to honor the late-Rep. John Lewis, in honor of the fifth anniversary of the civil rights icon’s death. They ...

In addition to remembering Lewis' work, protestors call for voting rights protection, citing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The "Good Trouble Lives On" event took place in various ...

John R. Lewis, age 78, died Sunday, April 13, 2025, in Neenah. John was born on November 7, 1946, to the late Richard William and Mary Lou (Robb) Lewis, in Detroit, Michigan. He married the love of ...